A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER DISH-COVERS
MARK OF THOMAS HEMING, LONDON, 1778
Shaped circular, with beaded borders, partly fluted and with laurel foliate and bud finial, engraved with two coats-of-arms accolé with viscount’s coronet above, marked on border
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diam.
55 oz. 5 dwt. (1,719 gr.)
The arms are those of Murray quartering Barclay of Balvaird, within the motto of the Order of the Thistle accolé with Cathcart quartering Wallace of Sundrum, for David, 7th Viscount Stormont K.T. (1727-1796), and his second wife, Louisa (b.c.1758-1843), daughter of Charles, 9th Lord Cathcart (1721-1776), whom he married in 1776.
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER DISH-COVERS
MARK OF THOMAS HEMING, LONDON, 1778
Shaped circular, with beaded borders, partly fluted and with laurel foliate and bud finial, engraved with two coats-of-arms accolé with viscount’s coronet above, marked on border
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diam.
55 oz. 5 dwt. (1,719 gr.)
The arms are those of Murray quartering Barclay of Balvaird, within the motto of the Order of the Thistle accolé with Cathcart quartering Wallace of Sundrum, for David, 7th Viscount Stormont K.T. (1727-1796), and his second wife, Louisa (b.c.1758-1843), daughter of Charles, 9th Lord Cathcart (1721-1776), whom he married in 1776.
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